The first chief executive of the AgriTech Catapult – a merger of the existing Agricultural Engineering and Precision Engineering (Agri-EPI), Crop Health and Protection (CHAP) and the Centre for Innovation...
Government has added more detail to its proposal to merge three of the UK’s Agri-Tech centres into a single Catapult organisation. But former NIAB chief executive Professor Tina Barsby warns that the Centres’ record is not great and...
Ten years after their creation, the government agency Innovate UK proposes to merge three of the four UK Agri-Tech Centres into a single integrated Catapult body. The agency, part of the Department for Business,...
The four UK agri-tech centres – CHAP, CIEL, Agri-EPI and Agrimetrics – are developing a sustainable farming partnership with the renowned Wageningen University & Research (WUR) agricultural research and training organisation in the...
UK agri-tech innovation centre CHAP has appointed a new sector team lead. Applied crop entomologist/nematologist Dr Andy Evans joins CHAP as sector team lead reporting to innovation director Dr Ruth Bastow. Dr Evans will oversee...
Crop Health and Protection (CHAP), one of the UK’s agricultural innovation centres, has appointed Oliver Baker as a horticultural research officer. He will be based at CHAP’s Natural Light Growing Centre on Warwick University’s...